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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...I Programmer From ACM News | January 24, 2012
The torrent of posts on Twitter Inc. last year about Netflix Inc. might have tipped off investors to stock swings that erased about $8 billion from the movie-rental...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 23, 2012
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.The New York Times From ACM News | January 23, 2012
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...Wired From ACM News | January 20, 2012
Microsoft's Dave Cutler is a legend in Redmond. And now he's taking on a new position, focusing efforts on improving the Xbox.CNET From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
A branch of the National Academy of Sciences reported Wednesday that federal safety regulators lack the expertise to monitor vehicles with increasingly sophisticated...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
Every entrepreneur hopes to start the next big thing. But sometimes the first try doesn’t go as planned.The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 18, 2012
Working hard or hardly working? Managers may find themselves asking that question after examining the results of a study that found massive increases in employees'...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | January 18, 2012
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.The Atlantic From ACM News | January 17, 2012
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 16, 2012
Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | January 12, 2012
It's a good bet that a lot of kids who can’t get enough cartoons dream about someday getting a job making them.Wired From ACM Careers | January 12, 2012
The current information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in England's schools is a "mess" and must be radically revamped, the education secretary...BBC News From ACM Careers | January 11, 2012
Intel application engineer Travis Bonifield has been working closely with Hawking to communicate with the world for a decade.Intel Free Press From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2012
The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 9, 2012
Like farming in the 17th century, factory work in the industrial revolution, construction in the Great Depression, and manufacturing following World War II, but...RoyBahat.com From ACM Careers | January 6, 2012
The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011—and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.The New York Times From ACM News | January 6, 2012
If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on.WebMonkey From ACM News | January 6, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012
If you're looking for a New Year's resolution, let me suggest an idea that you might not have considered: You should learn computer programming. Specifically,...Slate From ACM Opinion | January 6, 2012